"Like hell and high lightning" nghĩa là gì?

"Like hell and high lightning" = như địa ngục và chớp nháy -> nghĩa là rất nhanh chóng và ngay lập tức.

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It's flowing like hell and high lightning, so until it goes down a little bit, stay completely off the river." He says there are a few pathways that normally flood.

“I have never seen it like that before,” Scagnelli told Decaturish recently. “Usually, if there is water overflowing the creek, it is standing in puddles in the back. But this was rushing water moving like hell and high lightning.”

The truth is that two things are clear about the U.S. economy right now. It’s growing like hell and high lightning and adding jobs at a rapid clip; but the pace of job creation is being crimped, at least a bit, because employers are having a hard time finding as many workers as they want to hire.

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